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Daily pill could offer alternative to weight-loss injections

Tablets could offer a more convenient way to take weight-loss drugs H_Ko/Shutterstock A daily pill could soon be available as an alternative to Wegovy and

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Rapid melt from Antarctica could help preserve crucial ocean current

Melting ice in Antarctica could have an impact on ocean currents JUAN BARRETO/AFP via Getty Images While the melting of the Greenland ice sheet is

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Cuts and scrapes may be slower to heal in redheads

Our hair colour seems to have an unexpected role in wound healing stock-enjoy/Shutterstock Redheads may experience slower wound healing than their blonde, brunette or black-haired

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Static electricity can remove frost from windows using little energy

Aeroplanes are usually defrosted by spraying them with antifreeze Jaromir Chalabala / Alamy Static electricity can remove up to three-quarters of frost from a surface,

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James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA’s double helix, has died aged 97

Molecular biologist James Watson helped reveal DNA’s hidden shape Everett Collection Historical / Alamy Stock Photo James Watson, one of the discoverers of the structure

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What we’re learning about consciousness from master meditators’ brains

Matthew Sacchet (left) attaches an EEG headset that can monitor brain activity during states of deep meditation Matthew D. Sacchet Many of us have downloaded

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Quantum computers reveal that the wave function is a real thing

The wave function of a quantum object may not just be a mathematical construct Pobytov/Getty Images Does quantum mechanics really reflect nature in its truest

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Germanium superconductor could help build reliable quantum computers

Germanium is already used in standard computer chips matejmo/Getty Images A superconductor made from germanium, a material commonly used to build computer chips, could one

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Why zero is the most important number in all of mathematics

The Bakhshali manuscript includes the first instance of zero in the written record PA Images/Alamy What is the most important number in the entirety of

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Unpicking the genetics of fibromyalgia sheds new light on its causes

People with fibromyalgia have different genetic variants than those without it KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images We are starting to unpick the genetics of fibromyalgia,